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Worse, the player might have just invented a squib suicide gun.
The moment the cannonball returns to normal size, it is blocking the end of the barrel, but the force of the expanding gasses from the gunpowder burning haven't escaped the barrel yet. The barrel, for that moment, is effectively blocked and all the force of the gun will go apply equally in all directions on the barrel to explode with full force in the hand of the player.
It could be under the barrel and a few inches forward, like on the end of a bayonet.
It would have to be well calibrated, but it's possible depending on the rules of the ring.
You'd still have other issues around mass and size, but gun configuration could be solved.
The ring placement isn't the problem. Its the rings effect on the cannon ball returning it to normal size.
There's a reason today we don't use a few grams of gunpowder to shoot a cannon. The mass of the 5lbs cannon ball is far greater than the energy produced by expanding gasses of a few grams of burned gunpowder. So with a 5lbs cannon ball essentially magically appearing right at the mouth of the barrel (because the ring's effect), it effectively is a plug plugging up the barrel entirely.